Parallel queries

All,

How hard would it be to get a back end to hand off parts of a query tree to
other back ends (which it created), and then collate the results, and take
it from there? Obviously, it would only do this under certain conditions,
specifically, if it was compiled in to the server, and the query tree in
question had a particular profile, i.e.: lent itself to parallel processing.
But surely it couldn't be that difficult to get a back end to hand off, say,
a sub-select sub-tree, or UNION sub-trees. Under heavy loads with the right
hardware, this could gain significant performance improvement.

Michael Ansley

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